Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized

Re:Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Bo... by david-given on Monday August 10, 2015 @04:24AM (#10033332)

Is a translation available? I'd rather like to know what the poems say.

(Also, I know someone who'd really like a nice facsimile edition. Er, other than me. Those birds are amazing.)

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Re:Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Bo... by zariskij on Monday August 10, 2015 @06:22AM (#10033675)

Not poems. That's a list of the authors.

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Re:Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Bo... by zariskij on Monday August 10, 2015 @06:30AM (#10033705)

If you meant the poems in the manual, those would be pretty hard to translate...

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Re:Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Bo... by coldpie on Monday August 10, 2015 @08:58AM (#10034240)

I think he meant in the manual, yes. For example page 12[1]. I don't have a good understanding of Chinese, ancient or otherwise; why would they be difficult to translate?

[1] http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-FH-00910-00083-00098/12

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